There is a book by Dolores Canon titled "They walked with Jesus." It is about past life regressions of two women who knew, met, and followed Christ, and their regression experiences are astounding in terms of the detail and the words they shared with Christ. One can compare their experiences with any of the four Gospels and find both support and contradiction.

As an individual raised in the Catholic church, but not practicing now, I am not troubled or find any contradiction in the possibility that Christ fathered a child. I do believe, however, that at his level of consciousness the physical "need" to father a child may have been much lower priority to him than spiritual awareness and truth. Hence, I can also see that he might have not fathered a child either. This does not mean that he could not have had meaningful friendships with women: read the book and you will see.

As far as the virgin birth and Mary's (mother of Christ) purity, I believe in my soul that there is much man-made dogma which the church imposed over time for its needs. This is addressed in the aforementioned book, too.

Peace.

-SciMan